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Aren't the fairwitnesses being overlooked here? Since they, too, seem to have the ability to fully kill items in their conferences, item-enterers should be starting with the fairwitnesses of the conference in which the item was entered, before going right to staff. Now, if you say, "Well, fairwitnesses shouldn't be killing entire items willy nilly either", then note that is a situation that has been around for a long time, with this whole issue apparently overlooked. If valerie had gone to the fairwitnesses of the femme and kids conferences and got them to unlink and/or kill her items, thus not needing to use her staff privileges, then no one would have cause to accuse her of abuse, although this issue still would remain for discussion. If it is decided that neither staff nor fw's should be killing items outright, except for clear security / legal reasons, that is likely to be strictly a policy decision, since you can't prevent staff / root from doing anything, and it might be the case that you can't take away fw's ability to kill items.
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